A landmark Louisiana-funded study confirms what decades of fisheries science have long suggested: the Gulf menhaden fishery ...

The Virginia Marine Resources Commission voted to review potential regulations that would require bycatch reduction devices ...

In a recent video for UK conservation group Blue Marine Foundation, actor Theo James plays a customer ordering so-called ...

Funded with $1 million from the Louisiana Legislature and overseen by the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission, the LGL study found menhaden harvesting unintentionally caught an estimated 145 ...

A closely watched study of how many redfish and other species the industrial menhaden industry nets and ultimately kills off ...

Salmon bycatch brought to onshore processors typically gets taken to food banks. The rockfish bycatch quota is small, less than 1 percent compared with the total whiting limit.

A marine animal caught unintentionally by commercial fishing gear is known as bycatch. Dolphins trapped in nets targeting tuna, sea turtles swept up in shrimp trawls and terrapins caught in crab ...

Halibut bycatch in Bering Sea groundfish fisheries is not a conservation issue. The abundance of small halibut -- the ones hardest to avoid in the trawl flatfish and cod fisheries -- is almost ...

Salmon bycatch makes up a minuscule fraction of trawlers’ harvest — a single king for every 700,000 pounds of pollock, in the case of one vessel.

Bycatch for the future. The latest Fisheries Economics of the United States Report, from 2022, revealed that the U.S. commercial and recreational saltwater fishing industry generated $321 billion ...